As someone who moonlights as a Windows apologist (I use Linux everywhere but my gaming rig), this feels expected and doesn’t bother me much. It seems like power users can still get these options back by editing registry keys, which is pretty par for the course on legacy stuff. And I do think all of these options are for things that look dated compared to the streamlined look W11 is attempting to project.
Now, the circled ones are obvious no-brainer nice-to-haves that I will for sure be reenabling. But approaching things from the other side, I want to point out that the average LUser is pretty unsavvy. And seeing as mobile dominates the market share → “thought share” of OSes, I think comparing the way Windows does things to mobile makes it pretty clear as to why even having these options is going the way of the dodo for general users.
“Toy OS” is 100% correct, but that’s what people want for better or worse.🤣
Oh, but also my gut instinct tells me that removing “show drive letters” isn’t going to live past this beta “Insider Release” (YAY!™ branding! 🙂). That just feels like it opens up too much of a potential extra speedbump for over-the-phone support to be worthwhile.
As someone who moonlights as a Windows apologist (I use Linux everywhere but my gaming rig), this feels expected and doesn’t bother me much. It seems like power users can still get these options back by editing registry keys, which is pretty par for the course on legacy stuff. And I do think all of these options are for things that look dated compared to the streamlined look W11 is attempting to project.
Now, the circled ones are obvious no-brainer nice-to-haves that I will for sure be reenabling. But approaching things from the other side, I want to point out that the average LUser is pretty unsavvy. And seeing as mobile dominates the market share → “thought share” of OSes, I think comparing the way Windows does things to mobile makes it pretty clear as to why even having these options is going the way of the dodo for general users.
“Toy OS” is 100% correct, but that’s what people want for better or worse.🤣
Oh, but also my gut instinct tells me that removing “show drive letters” isn’t going to live past this
beta“Insider Release” (YAY!™ branding! 🙂). That just feels like it opens up too much of a potential extra speedbump for over-the-phone support to be worthwhile.